Web 2.0 Awards

I have checked out the Web 2.0 winners and had a blast!! There were 5 that I really liked.

Squidoo: http://www.squidoo.com/ An interesting site that you can spend a lot of time on. They have lenses, not web sites or pages. It's kinda Wikipedia-ish, but unlike Wikipedia where there is only 1 entry per topic, Squidoo allows lots of lenses on a topic for multiple views and opinions. Apparently you can even make a bit of money for yourself or your favorite charity.

Wufoo: http://wufoo.com/ I had to check this one because of the name alone. It's a form builder. They have a free one but the regular ones start at only about $10 and go up from there. I like it...forms are a pain to create and this makes it much easier.

Guess the Google: http://grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google/ This one I loved before I knew it had won an award. You have 20 images that all have something in common and you have to guess what it is in 20 seconds. Try it...you'll get addicted.

Esty: http://www.etsy.com/ Buy and sell handmade stuff. Interesting site. Fair prices. They have a section of "Geekery", which of course I had to check out. I LOVE the Kingpin and his 2 Flunkies. I think I might have to get one...and one for my dad...he'd love it!! http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/df8/694/il_fullxfull.8599745.jpg

Widgets: http://www.yourminis.com/ OK...now I had no idea what a widget is other than a plastic thing that holds a razor blade that we use to scrape off those permanently stuck stickers off new drinking glasses and picture frames. (This was before Goo-Gone).
I look in the information group...I am in the info biz after all... I must say "That was easy" (I have an easy button, too) and now I have a widget on my blog. It's all the way down at the bottom. Cool, huh?

What a fun...and incredibly time consuming job it would be to be a Web 2.0 judge...

I think, of the one's I've talked about here, the only one that could be useful in a library setting is the Wufoo site. Surveys and request forms are the first things that come to mind.

Others on the winners list include: Library Thing...although I feel it should have been 1st place. I think Meebo has HUGE applications in a library. Instant Message Reference, Baby!!! Students and other patrons could make good use of Zoho and Backpack. Writing papers and keeping notes like that would help them, particularly if they didn't have a disk or a jump drive to save their paper on and then loose or forget it at home.